Driving Question: How can we, as mathematicians, figure out how much of each ingredient we will need to make enough homemade pizza to feed the whole class and stay within budget,
Project Explanation: The students are promised a pizza party where they actually cook and eat pizza if they can figure out this real world math problem. Students are given a budget of $50.00 and a recipe for one pizza. Together they do a series of calculations to tell their teacher exactly what to buy.
Key Standards:
Mathematical Practices
Project Explanation: The students are promised a pizza party where they actually cook and eat pizza if they can figure out this real world math problem. Students are given a budget of $50.00 and a recipe for one pizza. Together they do a series of calculations to tell their teacher exactly what to buy.
Key Standards:
Mathematical Practices
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.Build fractions from unit fractions.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.A
Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.C
Add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators, e.g., by replacing each mixed number with an equivalent fraction, and/or by using properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.D
Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole and having like denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.4
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction by a whole number.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.4.C
Solve word problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.